Schiebel Engineer dies in incident

A foreign engineer from an Austrian company was killed and two South Korean colleagues were injured Thursday when an unmanned spy drone crashed into their control vehicle during a test flight, police said.

The trio were testing the aircraft for South Korea’s military in the western port city of Incheon, police said.

“A 50-year-old foreign engineer from an Austrian company died on the spot when the S-100 drone crashed while they were controlling it remotely from inside the vehicle,” a police spokeswoman at Incheon told AFP.

I'm thinking they use a little more sophisticated RTL algorithm than ours. I can think of one where you're always calculating the RTL offsets from current location and on loss of GPS, you can attempt a backtrack to launch without the GPS signal.

@Ellison, OK, assuming they have an inertial dead reckoning system, as a backup, that could help. And it's a fair assumption that they did.

The problem is, I think, if somebody was spoofing the GPS signal, that would probably over-ride the inertial system. Similar to what happened with that drone in Iran.

Regardless, it doesn't sound like the idea of GPS spoofing is anything other than supposition at this point. But, if it was spoofing, and it appears they even managed to steer the craft into the command and control station, that's a pretty frightening prospect that they had that much control.